“Our Resource Community Building Fund will deliver better social infrastructure – like supplementary health and education facilities, community centres and sporting facilities – to improve liveability, provide a better lifestyle in resource regions for generations of Queenslanders to come.”

“The Resource Community Building Fund will be joined by a Roads to Resources program and a Floodplain Security investment scheme*.

Mr Newman said through the Resource Community Building Fund, the LNP would invest $170 million in resource communities over the next four years – growing over this period to deliver $100 million in the fourth year to communities in resource regions.

“We’ll kick-off with $10 million to support ‘ready-to-go’ projects and build this to $100 million in the fourth year.

“We will contribute to strategic local infrastructure projects prioritised in regional plans to build long overdue social infrastructure.

“We will ensure that Local councils and communities have strong contributions so that projects best match community needs and aspirations.

“Unlike the tired, 20-year Labor government that has failed to plan and deliver the infrastructure needed in regional resource communities, the LNP will properly identify, plan and deliver the most appropriate projects in partnership with industry, councils and the people to get the best outcomes.